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...interested in communications. So I can definitely imagine doing this as a hobby,” he says.Marie K. Rutkoski, who received her Ph.D in English at Harvard, thinks differently about the children’s literature market. The author of last year’s young adult novel “The Cabinet of Wonders” and an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, Rutkoski found that getting hired in academia was harder than getting published. “In some ways, getting published in children’s literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature...
...anything and still be devoted to writing,” the visiting lecturer in English says. Her thesis advisee Uzodinma C. Iweala ’04 is living proof of that belief—Iweala’s creative senior thesis was published as the well-received novel “Beasts of No Nation.” And if writing a novel during college isn’t impressive enough, he did it all while fulfilling his pre-med requirements. As a freshman, Iweala planned to concentrate in economics. But after some time in his first Economics 10 lecture...
...that was in English, so I knew I wanted to be an English major and get certain grades,” she says. Under the guidance of Professor Jamaica Kincaid, Ganeshananthan completed her creative thesis. Seven years and about 150 pages later, she turned it into her first novel, “Love Marriage.” Before her career in fiction took off, however, Ganeshananthan became editor of her high school newspaper, and after enrolling at Harvard, she jumped right into The Crimson, rising to one of the top positions as Managing Editor. While Ganeshananthan always intended to become...
December 2005, when he asked me to read his novel. I was kind of reluctant to do it. I was concerned that I'd find things in there that would make me uncomfortable. As it turned out, the novel was actually surprisingly tender. I know that sounds strange. For the most part, it was a juvenile relationship that he was exploring, a boy and a girl going to a playground and swinging on the swings. At one point it seems as though they're going to be happy forever - it's the best section in the novel. And then everything...
...billion worth of narcotics every year. But in the past 12 months, this special relationship has been seen as more blight than blessing, with falling remittances, tumbling trade and an increasingly bloody war over the north-bound drug business. Many here are looking for the U.S.'s new and novel leader to revive the North American partnership. (See pictures of Obama's trip to Europe...